New Waterproof Soon
A sign a new waterproof camera is on its way is Canon Canada seems to be replaceing broken D10’s with whole new cameras, instead of fixing them.
I’ve seen this once before with a midlevel PowerShot, and sure enough it was replaced shortly after.
There are lots of factors that probably go into these decisions, but cost of warehousing them is definitely a factor. A discontinued PowerShot is a hard sell for retailers outside of the G series.
Theres also perception issues and high administrative costs to just pricedrop a camera to get rid of them.
Entire 2010/2011 Season of House By Canon DSLR?
I received information that the makers of House plan to shoot the entire next season with the 5D Mark II and possibly the 7D.
However, this time they would be adapting PV & possibly PL lenses.
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Nice.
okay, I’ll show my ignorance.
What is a PV and PL lens?
I watched the show to see how the photography was different, and the story was so good, that I did not spend a lot of time watching the photography.
Vincent Laforet also has a comment about the show on his blog. He particularly admired the lighting.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wordpress/jvaG/~3/xC8nhT7EO1A/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Good news about House! I thought they did a fantastic job with the camera. Would really give a major boost to the HDSLR movement. And those Zeiss lenses for video look fantastic and would expect those to get some use.
I watched the House episode last night and thought that they went a bit overboard with the focus shifts and ultra small DoF. …it was like, “I have a new toy, let’s see how far we can go.” Not subtle, by any stretch. I think the scene where house enter Cutty’s office and the camera is looking over his shoulder… A lot of camera swaying going on. I don’t think it was part of the direction.
The underground low light scenes were really good. It gave you sense of a dark tight environment. Made me wonder what came first… The camera or the story? …did they write the story before had the camera or had the story and thought the only way to convey it was with a Dslr.
When you say “shortly,” about how long was it? I’m taking a vacation in July, and was eying the D10 as a possible acquisition before then, but not if it’s not the latest and greatest, of course.
PL is a lens mounting system common to 35mm cinema cameras. PL just stands for ‘Positive Lock’ as opposed to screw on lenses.
One benefit would be to the focus pullers who have a hard job using still photography lenses to achieve repeatable focus pulls.
You can listen to a podcast with the DP of House, and learn a bit why he chose that camera. The story came first, then the camera, specifically for its ultra shallow DOF.
http://16x9cinema.com/digital-convergence-podcast/2010/4/30/digital-convergence-episode-15-gale-tattersall-cinematograph.html
I know this is off-topic, but I’m curious. Is anyone else having problems with Adorama’s new “beta” website? I like to window shop and have found their new website design to be a real mess performance-wise.
I’ve e-mailed them several times to ask them to either fix it or go back to the old one and just wondering if others are finding the same problems: Extremely slow search and “wishlist” function never works. I use Firefox, but have found the same problem no matter what browser I use.
Perhaps we can start a write-in campaign to encourage them to go back to the old interface.
Again, I apologize for going off-topic but I wanted to see if others are having the same frustration.
PV is Panavision mount.
This is used by Panavision for some of their rental lenses.
It’s similar to PL mount, but has a different depth so you can use a simple mechanical adaptor to put a PV mount lens on a Canon camera.
The PL depth doesn’t allow this, you actually have to remove the EOS mount (and the mirror) to fit a PL mount to a Canon camera.
canonrumors -like Wikipedia on steroids! :)
yep it’s super slow to load, search, checkout for me
Totally OT OTW comment: With the T2i very hard to find, I’m beginning to suspect that someone at Canon usa marketing screwed up in declaring the rebate, and they are withholding release of significant amounts of inventory until after June 5th.
OK, I know that couldn’t be true most likely…
I’ve searched for some lenses yesterday, and it seemed fast. I tried it again just now, and it was fast as well.
I hope its working for you now.
I felt the same way re: the DOF. They also seemed to have trouble w/critical focus.
Those are just quibbles though, overall it was pretty amazing.
Re. whole House season, seems unlikely. The editor said it took far more cleanup in post, so it may not have been any cheaper for them. The main benefit would be faster workflow off the camera, but that shouldn’t make much difference for a scripted show.
dont believe a thing of it by then theres newer dslr’s with a better sensor and better movies features as far as i know even the 550d is better moviewise then the 5d2 unless they shoot with real crappy lighting.
call me when they release a completely waterproof DSLR….
I read “D10” replacement and my first though was… dude that was replaced years ago!!
Ok, Canon, time for some new names! :)
No way House shoots the whole season on SLRs. The finale episode looked OK, but nowhere near as good as their typical film results. The cameras present too much of an issue with monitoring, handling, post workflow, etc. However, I (and my 5D MkII) would love to be wrong.
Actually, the only Canons that started with D are the D30 and D60, not the D10.
I would also love to know when a new/improved D10 will be available. I am wondering how long I should wait . . . emailed Canon, but in the meantime, does anyone have any more info?